The original single-coil soapbar design had a unique sonic character. Some players consider it to be the best-sounding pickup ever made. Low notes were solid and not tubby; they had an almost piano tone quality. High notes were incredibly fat, all the way up the neck. We've always thought this was a devastating combination, but we thought it would be even cooler if it were humbucking. Much research and a patent application later, here it is, with the added ability to adjust the patented dual resonance coils for bass and treble balance, and 4-conductor cable for coil-splitting and parallel sounds.

Recommended For:

Neck and bridge positions.

Tech Talk:

This is a very "even-tempered" pickup, with a fairly uniform frequency response, so it has a very round tone in the neck position and more biting bridge sound. Some of the very oldest single-coil soapbars had a very smooth treble rolloff over 2500 cycles - that's why harmonics sounded so fat coming off of these pickups, and it's one of the things we built into the DLX-90^TM.

Specifications:

Wiring Standard four conductor
Magnet Ceramic
Output 290mV
DC Resistance 9.62K
Year of introduction 1997
Patent # 4,501,185 and patent applied for